Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the Labour leadership recognises publicly that some form of Scottish parliament must come first on its political agenda and unless it can bring itself to co-operate enthusiastically with the SNP and Liberal parties to achieve this , nothing will continue to happen . |
| 2 | Gloucester city centre has been virtually closed since midday , but the police are anxious to stress that with recent bombings in other cities public safety must come first . |
| 3 | I do not guarantee that this method will work first time and it would be wise to practise first . |
| 4 | Your social life would go first mainly |
| 5 | This concern should focus first on understanding ‘ how it is possible ’ for corporate crime to be endemic in our ‘ law and order ’ society , and second , and hopefully flowing from this understanding , ‘ how can it be contained or regulated ? ’ |
| 6 | This overall field embraces subsidiary or ‘ local ’ fields within the organism and its component parts , and if there is a tendency to contract a disease such as cancer , this tendency will appear first as a ‘ stress ’ in the pre-physical body , later becoming a pathological disease at the cellular level . |
| 7 | A real disrupting cylinder would fail first at its leading edge , where pressures are highest . |
| 8 | Turning to the controversy over where a world revolution could begin , Marx and Engels 's stress on the determination of political events by economic change and the historic role of the proletariat both strongly suggested that a socialist revolution would occur first in one of the most industrialized economies ( such as England , France or Germany ) where the organized working class was largest . |
| 9 | In the example , if the two balls are released from A together , the ball on the cycloidal path will arrive first at B . |
| 10 | Refinement of interim conclusions based on national antislavery organisation will concentrate first on the elements of agitation in winning over support to antislavery by paying attention to local antislavery committees or societies , types of antislavery meeting and petitioning . |
| 11 | Twenty children from St. Denis ' Primary School will receive First Holy Communion on Sunday , 13th June , the Feast of Corpus Christi ( The Body and Blood of Christ ) , a memorable day to receive First Holy Communion . |
| 12 | The general lack of awareness in the medical profession of the nature of addictive disease and of the process of recovery through the " Anonymous Fellowships is Surely , a clinical scientist should observe first , postulate second and treat third , not the other way round . |